Put simply, it’s the outcome of a chemical reaction, which humans learned how to make some 400,000 years ago.
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Cosmologists are heading back to their chalkboards as the experiments designed to figure out what this unknown 84 percent of our universe actually is come up empty.
Canada is a world leader in the field of neutron scattering, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994 for its invention. But the looming shutdown of facilities at Chalk River puts us on the sidelines.
How do anesthetics work, and what makes for an ideal anesthetic? It’s not as mysterious as once believed, and there’s a gas that ticks all the boxes for a perfect anesthetic: xenon.
Work to develop a single-atom magnet that works at room temperature has just taken a big leap forward.
It’s like one great big distillery up there.
Atoms blown up in the right way could signal when a gravitational wave is passing through.
The reason you feel things as solid is all to do with electrons.
Atoms manipulated to be 4000 times larger than usual may be the tool dark-matter hunters have been waiting for.
With current modes up against their limits, we need new data storage solutions. Tiny defects in diamonds’ atomic structure might turn them into a new medium for memory.
New elements found in the reactions of nuclear tests during World War II sparked the hunt for additions to the periodic table.
They might only last for a fraction of a second but four new elements have finally won their place in the periodic table. The hunt is now on to find even more.
Rutherford backscattering spectrometry has been a success in fields ranging from astronomy to art. Now it has even been proven accurate to the satisfaction of the metrologists
The Nobel Prize-winning research on neutrinos is expected to push the boundaries of science and technology.
These laboratory-made metals have unusual properties that consumer electronics manufacturers love. New research used high-energy X-rays to figure out why.
The hunt for long-lived superheavy elements has taken another leap forward now we’ve confirmed the existence of Element 117, also known as ununseptium. It was first seen briefly by a team of US and Russian…
A new synthetic metabolic pathway has been created to more efficiently break down glucose, potentially leading to an increase…
Atomic motions have been recorded in real-time, providing insights into the foundations of chemistry. University of Toronto…
A single layer of atoms can be used to enhance or restrict heat flow between materials. The finding comes as researchers…
Atoms cooled to extremely low temperatures have been observed entering a rare state called “quantum criticality”. Physicists…
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